I ran across this last night, and had to share!
World’s largest operating water wheel, with a horizontal beam that drove mine pumps. The sectional beam is 600’ long, on its own little railway track.
Is this another add to your “to-do List”?
Ken Brunt said:
Is this another add to your “to-do List”?
If it isn’t we are gonna make it such !
If the V&T had one, you bet!
But unfortunately… sigh… not in this life for me…
This would be such a blast to model though!!
Cliff;
As JJ used to say, “sacred bovine!,” there are Ferris wheels in theme parks that are smaller than that water wheel!
Thanks for the videos, David Meashey
Wow, that’s one heck of an impressive machine!
That would be a fun project, Hmmmmm
Dennis
That would be a fun project, Hmmmmm
Dennis
Here i9s something sorta similar. Fasinated the hell out of me when I first ran across it.
Cool. The U.K. is just chock full of very interesting and huge mechanical marvels from the past. I went down the rabbit hole of operating stationary engines a few days ago and was blown away by a restored London sewage pump. I watched so many that day I don’t remember the name, but it also had a huge beam to drive the pumps and that had been expanded with a “grasshopper”.
John Caughey said:
Bushman mine in Calif.
http://archives.csuchico.edu/cdm/ref/collection/coll11/id/12856
Nice one, John. That reminds me, there was a similar-sized one in Virginia City.
Jon Radder said:
Cool. The U.K. is just chock full of very interesting and huge mechanical marvels from the past. I went down the rabbit hole of operating stationary engines a few days ago and was blown away by a restored London sewage pump. I watched so many that day I don’t remember the name, but it also had a huge beam to drive the pumps and that had been expanded with a “grasshopper”.
Jon, talking about Pandora’s box…
Maybe you’re thinking of the Crossness pumping station, it’s jaw-dropping…
… or Papplewick’s …
… or Abbey’s …
I hear ya Jon, it’s hard to stop!
Rick Marty said:
Here i9s something sorta similar. Fasinated the hell out of me when I first ran across it.
Rick, I was blown away as well when I first saw videos of the Falkirk Wheel, it had me blowing bubbles in the corner for a while.
Here’s the smaller Laxey Wheel, and the tiny tram that now takes tourists about.
It was the Crossness station. Crazy stuff!